KILLING ADELL: Tailoring Your Game to the People Playing ItNo matter how long you spend creating your world, and no matter how much you plan, your players will come along and do things you won’t expect. Your game takes place in a complex moral landscape where you won’t have much time to react when the players take a hard left. But no pressure.

The creators of the TV Tropes ARG The Wall Will Fall discuss the (many) times that they found themselves surprised by player choices, and how they adapted based on the way their players were playing their game.

After all, it’s not everyday a player volunteers to die.

So yeah, you should all go! It will be awesome. Tickets are pretty cheap!

KILLING ADELL: Tailoring Your Game to the People Playing ItNo matter how long you spend creating your world, and no matter how much you plan, your players will come along and do things you won’t expect. Your game takes place in a complex moral landscape where you won’t have much time to react when the players take a hard left. But no pressure.

The creators of the TV Tropes ARG The Wall Will Fall discuss the (many) times that they found themselves surprised by player choices, and how they adapted based on the way their players were playing their game.

After all, it’s not everyday a player volunteers to die.

So yeah, you should all go! It will be awesome. Tickets are pretty cheap!

Agh, why.......*lives on the other side of the country from seattle*

Is there some way I can watch a livestream, or watch a video?

Krika>Narra has tiny jerk people in her socks.>We are affirming our collective jerkhood by committing genocide on them.Guyshane>I'm going to read the logs and pray that that sentence makes more sense in context>No>No it does not

When a new book is made, nobody has to teach the consumer how to read the book. The same goes with new video games, new movies, or new television shows. But implicitly, every single ARG needs to be ready to teach new players how to participate. My discussion is why that necessity is good, and ways to incorporate such techniques into your ARG. Examples from The Wall Will Fall will be included, both in terms of what to do and what not to do.

I smiled when the wall was built, for I knew we were creating something incredible. And I smiled when it cracked, for the world would soon see what we had wrought.

I will be working. Far away on my side of the continent. Jaaaaaaack (or ANYONE), if you can record it, even a motion-sickness quality recording (hey, we can still LISTEN to it!), you will have all the hugs. All of them.

Side note - I had Tweeted about wanting to do ARGfest for some time... know when they reached out to me about it? April 11. Folks may remember that as the day 33_Footsteps was born.

I held off on sharing that part because I didn't want to tip my hand early ... but that day had live Tweeting, ARGfest asking me what presentation I'd want, a kind note from Molly Ringwold, and Zoë's birth. Really huge day.

I smiled when the wall was built, for I knew we were creating something incredible. And I smiled when it cracked, for the world would soon see what we had wrought.

Given that it's starting in two days, have you managed to figure out if you're going to be able to record the audio of the panel, at the very least?

Krika>Narra has tiny jerk people in her socks.>We are affirming our collective jerkhood by committing genocide on them.Guyshane>I'm going to read the logs and pray that that sentence makes more sense in context>No>No it does not

I was speaking more toward the GMs, given that they said they were going to try and get the panel recorded somehow, but Ok.

Krika>Narra has tiny jerk people in her socks.>We are affirming our collective jerkhood by committing genocide on them.Guyshane>I'm going to read the logs and pray that that sentence makes more sense in context>No>No it does not

I am double-posting to say good luck to the GMs, as the panel is scheduled to happen in....*checks watch* a little under 8 hours. I hope it goes well!

Krika>Narra has tiny jerk people in her socks.>We are affirming our collective jerkhood by committing genocide on them.Guyshane>I'm going to read the logs and pray that that sentence makes more sense in context>No>No it does not

It's been exciting so far. Highlights have included finally meeting others who worked on it with me, discussing Avatar: the Last Airbender shipping (Orphan is an f'ing pimp, is all I'll say), and seeing Jack's reaction to reading some of our prototype design documents.

I smiled when the wall was built, for I knew we were creating something incredible. And I smiled when it cracked, for the world would soon see what we had wrought.

Heads-up for those of you who are interested but don't have a twitter account that has just been inundated with cause for jealousy-- there's been a lot of livetweeting of the panel, particularly from Jack, that's fun to look at. And by fun I mean 'torment'.